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Our real journey in life is interior.

Thomas Merton

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
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Acceptance Desire Generosity Goodness Greatness Life Live Love Ourselves Self Love
We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
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Live Ourselves Revolution Storm Time Transformation
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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Humility Pride Reality
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Desire End Leadership Life Live Man Philosophy Service Spiritual Yourself
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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Compassionate Interdependent Philosophy
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
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Better God Nature Spiritual Tree Wind
‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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Job Love Ourselves Stop Worth
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Art Lose Ourselves Time
From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.
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Connection Food Growth Moments Ourselves Pieces Relationship Spiritual World
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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Gratitude Respond Wake Up Wonder
Weaknesses and deficiencies play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
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Himself Important Live Need Play Role Weakness
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
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Breathe Existence Gift God Grace Moments
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
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Capacity Fear Heart Love Ourselves Power
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
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Give Up Himself Material Ourselves Surrender
How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
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Change Loyalty Mindset Myself Shadow Sincere Thinking
Our real journey in life is interior.
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Journey Life Ourselves Reality

Our real journey in life is interior.

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